Planting Mighty OaksPastors John Ronel and his wife, Francoise Kayari Ronel, know what it is like to flee for your life in the middle of the night, to live with no electricity or refrigeration, to cook every meal over an outside fire, and to live with your entire...

Macedonia 2019: Day 5 & 6We kicked off the weekend with a high energy Kinetic English class and a center FULL of kids! English class consist of song and dance to the tune of familiar American songs such as “The Hokey Pokey” and “If You’re Happy and You Know It.” We...

Macedonia 2019: Day 3 & 4Update from the Macedonia Team: We spent the morning cleaning the street outside the Shift Center. As Fredy put it, “We want to show them that it isn’t just our spiritual life that has been changed, but our environment as well.” We cleaned up...

Macedonia 2019: Day 2 Isaiah 55:8-12… “So my word goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” Our Eastminster team met with the Shift Center team to begin the morning with a...

Macedonia 2019: Day 1We started our travel with a nice long stretch in Chicago due to a delay in our flight, which provided a good opportunity for us to get to know each other a bit more. Andy, Rob and Jeff got to see who the cribbage shark was, while Hannah and Jamie...

by Lynn Ward, RIOT team lead In 2016, Session approved a plan to establish a new team under the Local & US Missions Council. The team was to focus on serving the needs of refugees and immigrants who had settled in Wichita. The new team, dubbed RIOT...

Nebraska: Day 3Today we got the chance to go to Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. They have many exhibits that we can’t find in Wichita such as the Desert Dome (a massive glass geodesic dome housing the world’s largest indoor desert!), Creatures of the Night (a...

Nebraska: Day 3 Hello from Avery! Today we went back to the house we were at yesterday and finished up some yard work. We had a few encounters with snakes and worms while working on a number of projects, from chopping down trees and chipping them up, to clearing out...

Nebraska: Day 2God orchestrated so many things for our mission trip even before we arrived in Nebraska. About two years ago, a team from Eastminster, which included my family, came to Bellevue to help Avery Presbyterian with a Christmas Eve Service. As the animated...

Nebraska: Day 1 We left Eastminster bright and early and headed on our way up north to Nebraska. The five-hour bus ride was full of laughs and anticipation of the week ahead. To pass the time, some slept while others conversed. The bus ride was air conditionined and...